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The Exponent
Northern State Teachers College
SEE "FAIRYLAND" SEE "FAIRYLAND"
VOL. XXIV ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, MARCH 24, 1986 No. 23
THE STYLE SHOW "OUR YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW"
KINDERGARTEN EXPERT
TO LECTURE ON CAMPUS
SPONSORED BY LOCAL GROUP
Miss Alma Binzel Will Present Mod-ern
Ideas on Childhood and
Parenthood
Have you ever seen a real Fairyland
and a Fairy Godmother? In your im-agination
you-have, but here is a sec-ret:
there will be a real Fairyland
and a real Fairy Godmother on the
campus May 4, 5 and 6. With a
magic touch the sunparlor will be
transformed into Fairyland and the
Fairy Godmother will be in the per-son
of Alma Binzel.
In our fairy stories the fairy god-mother
waved her wand and spoke
some magic words which brought
good fortune to the child. Miss Binzel
will speak her magic words in the
form of three lectures on some phase
of Child Welfare. Every mother and
father, every teacher and prospective
teacher who hear her words of wisdom
will receive some magic keys which
will aid them in unlocking the person-ality
of the children entrusted to their
care.
Miss Binzel is an authority on child
welfare. She began the study of chil-dren
in the primary department of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, State Normal
School. She was so successful as a
student teacher that she was elected
to the directorship of the kindergarten
at her Alma Mater. She studied fur-ther
and received her B. S. and M. A.
degrees from the Teachers College,
Columbia University. She has also
done advanced work at the University
of Minnesota and at Smith College
Training School for Social Workers.
She is noted as an educator, a writ-er,
and a lecturer. She is, at present,
educational director and associate edi-tor
for the Federation for Child Study,
and is also contributing editor of
"Childhood Education," the new offi-cial
organ of the International Kin-dergarten
Union. She was a member
of the organization which inaugurated
the first conference on "Modern Parenthood,"
held in New York, last Oc-tober.
As a lecturer she is winning
great applause because of her mes-sage
and because of her forceful and
convincing attitude as a speaker. She
is now making a tour speaking before
professional groups and other groups
interested in her passage.
Miss Binzel has contracted to pre-sent
three lectures under the auspices
of the Kindergarten-Primary Club,
May 4, 5 and 6. The exact nature
of the lectures and the exact time will
be announced later.
COMMERCIAL TEST
Much interest is being manifest
by commercial students throughout
the state in the district contest in
commercial work to be held on March
20 at the various districts. There are
31 high schools represented in the
11 districts, which is more than have
ever before been represented. To date
265 students have registered, 45 of
whom are in the bookkeeping contest
held in South Dakota for the first
time this year.
The Aberdeen district has the larg-est
registration with Miss Evelyn
Bailey, a former student of N. S. T.
C., as manager. This district is rep-resented
by six schools. Three of their
teachers, Miss Madsen at Eureka, Miss
Wilson at Langford and Miss Bailey
at Aberdeen, in these schools beirtg
former students at the college. Con-testants
winning high scores in the
district meets will be entered in the
State Contest to be held at Aberdeen
in April.
12,000 SCHOOL BULLETINS
The 1926 Summer School of N. S
T. C. again promises to be the larg-est
ever held in the state. A force
of eight people has been employed the
past week in the annual job of send-ing
out summer school bulletins to
prospective students over the state
of South Dakota. The mailing list
is made up of high school graduates
principals, superintendents, and teach-ers
over the state and the adjoining
states. Up to the present time there
have been approximately twelve thou-sand
bulletins mailed.
MISS TAGGART REPORTS
At the meeting of Physical Educa-tion
Directors held at Minneapolis, last
week, Miss Taggart of N. S. T. C. was
the only representative from the Da-kotas.
The general theme was "Motiva-tion."
Of special interest to Miss
Taggart was the discussions of Wo-men's
Athletics, stressing the need of
leaders along this line and the devel-opment
of a program exclusively for
women instead of following men's
rules.
Among the more prominent speak-ers
present were President Coffman
of University of Minnesota; Dr. Nor-ris,
President of Midwest Section;
McCurdy, editor American Physical
Education Review; H. Doubler, the
natural dancer; Mary Woodman Hin-man,
writer; Bowen, Michigan,
Ypsalanti; and Wilbur Burton of the
Cincinnati University.
The Danish Gymnastic rhythmic ex-ercises
and many other demonstra-tions
were features of the program.
See "Fairyland"
ETHICS FOR TEACHERS
Recognizing the recent impetus which interest in education has received, realizing that this increases the opportunty for?
service extended to us as teachers, and desiring to make as definite as possible in our own minds our aims and ideals, we are led to formulate
a Standard of Ethics for the grade teachers of the United States
We believe that one who aspires to be a leader of youth should have, first of all, Character—that subtle and indefinable qual-ity
which is finer than the finest deeds; greater than the greatest facts, which includes, but transcends honor—a nice sense of what is right,
just, and true, with a course of life corresponding thereto; Vision--in supreme faith in the ultimate triumph of the ideal good; Patience—
which means the ability and willingness to wait, and may also mean kndliness to evil-doers, and bearing with the weaknesses of others; Jus-tice—recognizing in our fellow-man another self-seeing both sides of every question; Benevolence—that which helps another to help himself—not indulgence; That energy and enthusiasm which can be satisfied only by seeing ambition realized; Service—"The power to give the world more than I take."
And with these a broad education both liberal and professional as a preparation for one's life work, so that he may do it consc-ientiously
and with pleasure because he can do it well.
"And it came to pass that after awhile the artist was forgotten—but the work lived."
—N. L. T. A. Committee on Standard of Ethics.
STATE MUSIC CONTEST
Twenty Different Schools Enrolled
With More Than 500 Contestants
Professor Ivor Thomas gave a very
interesting talk in convocation, last
Wednesday, concerning the Music
Contest which is to be held in the N
S. T. C. Auditorium, Wednesday and
Thursday, April 21 and 22. There
is to be a bigger and better presenta-
tion this year than last, as over 500
students are participating. It is es-timated
that the soloists number from
90 to 100. Professor Frederick Muel-
ler - of Minneapolis, who is one of our
most representative musicians in the
northwest, will act as judge in the
contest. The towns already enrolled
are as follows: Aberdeen, Bradley,
Clark, Cresbard, Eureka, Faulkton
Frankfort, Groton, Leola, McIntosh,
Northville, Redfield, Sisseton, Sum-mit,
Frederick, Hecla, Roscoe, Strat-ford,
Westport and Rockham.
Medals and ribbons will be awarded
to solo contestants and cups will be
awarded to group contestants. Mr
Thomas urges as many to attend this
event as possible, for many valuable
benefits can be derived from such a
musical contest.
N. N. I. S.-1919-N. N. I. S.
"Arrangements have been made for
an oil painting on the frieze of the
balcony in the school auditorium. On
this broad band, extending the entire
width of the room, will be depicted a
rural scene showing the three great
institutions, the home, the church and
the school."
"After long and honorable connec-tion
with the N. N. I. S., President
Johnson is called to a greater honor
and responsibility-the presidency of
South Dakota State College. May it
have for him the same long service,
the same fine achievements, the same
deep regard of faculty and student
body. He is northy of it all.-A. H.
Seymour."
"Miss Mary Meek of the English
department expects to leave about
March 1, for San Antonio, Tex., where
for about six weeks she will cooperate
with her brother, C. S. Meek, superin-tendent
of San Antonio schools, and
Miss Estaline Wilson, in editing a
series of three readers for the elemen-tary
schools."
"Dr. Harold W. Foght, director of
the recent state-wide educational sur-vey
ordered by the South Dakota leg-islature,
and since 1912 specialist in
rural education for the Bureau of
Education at Washington and chief
of the rural school division in charge
of the Bureau's rural school work
for the entire country, was elected
president of the Northern Normal and
Industrial School to succeed President
Willis E. Johnson."
"Bernice Remde, first Gypsy Queen,
was a visitor on the campus last Sat-urday."
"With the opening of the winter
term at the Northern Normal on Jan-uary
5, 1920, this institution becomes
a federalized school, receiving subs-tantial
aid from the United States
government for the purpose of or-ganizing
and maintaining a depart-ment
for hygiene. A check for $6,750
has been received to cover this allott-ment
for the first year."
"This year the school returns to
the daily convocation plan. It
planned to have fifteen minute talks
on worth-while topics each day."
"Dr. Foght is very proud of his new
son, John Allen, born last week. John
is a direct descendant, on his mater-nal
side, from. Ethan Allen of Ticon-deroga."
ELECTION IN DISTRICT IX
The girls of District Nine met with
their advisor, Miss Burnham, during
convocation period, Thursday morning
to elect a new district representative.
After heavy and bitter campaign
speeches, the candidates, Edna Dunker
and Phyllis McCarthy, were voted up-
on. The vote resulted in a tie. Then a
more heated discussion took place with
both candidates begging for votes.
Finally out of the din and noise came
a voice saying, "Let Us Cast Lots."
The suggestion was taken up and it
was decided that the advisor was to
be the one to draw the fatal card.
Suspense reigned as Miss Burnham
drew the card and read the name of
Miss McCarthy. Miss McCarthy wad
over joyed because of her victory and
immediately made her opponent her
assistant and secretary.
THE 1926 BASKETBALL SQUAD
FACULTY SURVEY SHOWS ACTIVITY
BELONG TO MANY GROUPS
All Are Members of N. E. A. and S. D. E. A., National and
State Educational Organizations
Making surveys of certain groups
seems to be quite the thing these days
and so in order not to be behind the
times we have endeavored to make a
survey of the N. S. T. C. faculty.
Fifty-two individuals were interviewed
as to what organizations they belong
and in what outside activities
they aie interested. If any were
skipped it was due to the fact that
we were, unable to get in touch with
them.
The purpose of the survey was to
determine how far faculty members
enter into various extra-curricular activities
and to refute if possible, the
statement that teachers in general
are not interested and active citizens.
The men belong to more organiza-
tions than the women. The order of
Masons seems to be popular, as there
are ten members in this group. There
are four Rotarians, all of whom are
especially active, as one is vice-president,
one secretary, one a director,
and one a song leader. There are four
Kiwanians, one of whom is president
and one district director. Three be-long
to the Orpheus Club, a group of
male singers. Seven belong to the
American Association of University
Women. Seven of the faculty are
members of the Aberdeen Commercial
Club and four are members of the
Isaac Walton League. Three are in-
terested as Y. M. C. A. and three as
Y. W. C. A. workers. The order
of Eastern Stars has five representa-
tives. The Modern Woodmen of America
claims four. There is one Moose,
two Knights of Columbus, and two
Lions, one Elk, one Muscovite and
one Catholic Order of Foresters. One
is a member of the American Summer
Resort Association, Nearly all are
members of the American Red Cross
and most of the women have member-
ships in some one of the city clubs.
There are three Odd Fellows and one
K. P. Thirty-five belong to the var-ious
professional societies and asso-ciations
representing their own field of
work. Two women are active in
the Girls' Scout movement. Nearly
all who have children are members
of the Parent-Teachers Association.
The entire faculty belongs to the N.
E. A. and S. D. E. A., two being life
members.
The faculty is well represented in
church work. Three of them are
church organists, two are choir lead-
ers and one church soloist. Seven others
are members of church choirs.
Eighteen others take active parts in
various churches as superintendents
or Sunday School teachers. Three
faculty members are lay preachers.
All who were interviewed are "of
age" and affirmed that they discharge
their duties as voters. Many of them
said they were "free-lances" in poli-tics.
These figures would seem to
prove conclusively that teachers are
as active in community activities as
those of any other group.
CONCERNING ENROLLMENT
The Registrar Says That 1061 Stu-dents
have Enrolled to Date
From the Registrar's Office come
some figures concerning enrollment
which are rather interesting. There
are eleven more students registered
this quarter than a year ago for the
spring quarter. Not so very many
more, but, nevertheless, more, and
that shows a healthy growth. In the
Extension Department there is a still
larger growth. A year ago there were
enrolled in this department 272 stu-dents,
as against 301 for this year.
In total enrollment there is also a
step forward, so far as numbers are
concerned. Last year at this time
1056 different, resident students bad
enrolled during the year. As against
this number the registrar informs us
that we have 1061 as a total of res-ident
students for the present year
MISS SMITH TO EUROPE
Miss Lolie Smith has made reser-vation
through the Milwaukee Travel
Bureau for a European trip. She
will sail from New York on June 26
and will tour France, Italy, Switzer-land,
Germany, Belgium and England
She plans to return to Montreal the
latter part of August from which
place she will go to Texas to visit rel-ative
and friends. We are sure .Miss
Smith will have a wonderful vaca-tion
and will come back to her classes
with many splendid ideas.
ANOTHER PROMOTION
Gideon Seymour Promoted to A. P
Headquarters in Chicago
Gideon D. Seymour, a graduate of
the college in 1919 and former head
of the Associated Press in South Da-kota
has been promoted from the
place he took last July at Indianap-olis
as head of the Associated Press
in Indiana to a place on the staff of
the division headquarters in Chicago
His new work will involve the handl-ing
of news stories principally in the
metropolitan area including Chicago
and its environs. Mr. Seymour joined
the A. P. in 1923 and has been ar
editor in the Iowa and Nebraska bur-eaus
and head of the service in South
Dakota and Indiana. His initial news-paper
work was done on the old Aberdeen
News under the direction of
its long-time editor, John Saunders.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
Fifteen city teachers are now tak-ing
work in Geography. Nine are
taking a course in European geo-graphy
and six have enrolled for the
course in Economic Geography. Some
of the city teachers have taken prac-tically
the entire two years of work
in college geography. Three of the
students are principals in the Aber-deen
city schools. Professor Worf
has been holding classes in the even.
ing and on Saturday to accommodate
these people from down town.
THE STYLE SHOW
One-Hundred-and-Thirty People To
Take Part in Annual Event
On account of a conflict, the Style
Show which was scheduled for Wed-nesday
will be given Thursday morn-
ing, March 25, instead of during the
regular convocation period.
A delightful and instructive pro-gram
has been arranged which will
meet the approval of all. The com-mittee
in charge has aimed to make
this style show a worthwhile enter-prise.
Styles appropriate for all oc-casions
will be displayed. You will
find the style, line and color suitable
for your particular type. Reasonable
priced garments, within the reach of
average college students will be
shown. A hundred and thirty people
will take part, thus making it the
biggest Style Show ever held at N.
S. T. C.
The Beaux Art Club has charge of
the stage scenery and judging from its
effective work in the past, the setting
will be beautiful and in harmony with
the program. The lighting will be
taken care of by Mr. Harkness.
The program is entitled "Our Yes-terdays,
Today and Tomorrow," and
is divided into three parts. The first
part, "As We Were," takes us back
to our childhood. A group of small
children and boys and girls in the
'teen age will appear in this scene.
The second part, "As We Are," takes
us through a whole day showing negl-igee,
morning, sport, street, afternoon,
dinner, and evening dress. The third
part, "As We Hope to Be," gives us
a glimpse into the future.
Throughout the program, Aileen
Egan will play music appropriate to
every scene.
ALL-SCHOOL DANCE
The St. Patrick's Day All-School
Dance was well attended last Satur-day.
The dance was sponsored by the
Kappa Delta Pi pledges. The Gym
was most artistically decorated to suit
the occasion with green Irish hats,
pigs, snakes, shamrocks and pipes
against a white background. The
music was furnished by the Jazzy
Juniors. Miss Staael and Miss Ahern
favored the group with solo dances.
Miss Schumaker and Miss Hull gave
a Charleston exhibition. Mr. and Mrs.
Sherwood were chaperons.
PROFESSORS AS JUDGES
Professors Wray, J. W. Thomas, and
Dean Seymour acted as judges in a
debate tournament at Selby last
week. The schools which debated
were Wakpala, Mobridge, Selby and
Roscoe. The final contest was be-tween
Selby and Mobridge and Mo-bridge
came out the winner. The
question discussed was the child la-bor
question.
MR. PERRY CLIFFORD
The voice department of our college
has a unique pupil in Perry Clifford,
a farmer from Cresbard. His occu-pation
is farming; his hobby is music,
and he makes it an interesting side
line.
He makes his weekly visit to the
campus and takes lessons from Pro-fessor
Clyde Matson. For the past
three years he has drilled a large
chorus for the Messiah in Faulk
County. Every two weeks he meets
the singers in four separate commun-ities-
at Cresbard, Rockham, Faulk-ton
and Norbeck. These groups are
then combined into one chorus of
about seventy.
At Richland, Mr. Clifford has a class
in singing. He follows his avocation
as industriously as his vocation and
is evidently as interested in one as in
the other. Mrs. Clifford is also a mus-ician
and helps her husband in his
work.
WHEN DO WE HIKE?
Saturday at 8:30 A. M. and 2:00
P. M., every girl will want to hike
These wonderful days must not be
passed by without a hike. If you have
never hiked with us, come out Satur-day
and we promise you a good time.
Of course we want to see all of the
old members out. All will be inter-ested
to know that due to a change
in the W. A. A. constitution that only
forty-miles are required, each Hiker
receiving forty-five points. Let's make
our group the largest ever and have
a good time every Saturday.
OPEN-FORUM DEBATES
ARE VERY POPULAR
Men's Teams Are Busy
Contests are Held in Several Com-munities
in North and South
Dakota
The Northern State Teachers Col-lege
has tried an experiment in its
debating program this year which has
gone a long ways in placing Intercol-legiate
Debate on a practical basis.
The Open-Forum Debates were the
first departure from the old form of
competition in an attempt to make
this form of public discussion a means
of conveying information rather than
winning a decision. The past two
weeks our teams have taken part in
several debates held in several South
Dakota and North Dakota communi-ties
for the purpose of giving these
communities a better understanding
of the child labor question.
During the week from March 5 to
March 12, our negative team, com-posed
of Carl, Otto and William Gruhn
and Ben Renz met the affirmative
team from Eastern State Teachers
College, composed of Mary Pensch,
Mr. Campbell and Ruth Brown, as
follows: Logan Consolidated School
at Raymond, Congregational Church
at Clark, and Thorpe Consolidated
School at Bradley. The audience was
permitted to vote before and after
the debates to determine how many
had changed their attitude on the
subject as a result of the discussion.
The first two nights there was no
change in the opinion of the audience,
but the third night there was a very
decided change of attitude in favor of
the negative.
This series of debates showed that
the people were interested in the dis-cussion.
From the questions that
were asked and from the interest that
was shown, it was clear that the aud-ience
was seeking information. The
debaters report a royal reception and
splendid entertainment in every com-munity
visited.
The success of these debates was
shown by the fact that Superintendent
Headley of Garden City, who heard
the debate at Clark, immediately
asked the teams to arrange for a date
at Garden City in the near future.
Debate Jamestowit
Last week the men's teams of Nor-thern
State Teachers College met
Jamestown College in a series of
open-forum debates in North Dakota.
The teams alternated, one team tak-ing
the affirmative side of the ques-tion
one evening and the negative the
next. These debates were very well
attended by enthusiastic and interest-ed
audiences. It is another evidence
of the popularity of "open-forum de-bates
in the smaller North and South
Dakota communities.
The schedule was as follows: March
15, LaMoure,; March 16, Edgeley;
March 17, Ellendale; March 18, Ful-lerton;
March 19, Wyndmere; and
March 20, Streeter.
The teams were composed of Pete
Hafnor and Calvin Lewis, William
Gruhn and Ben Simmons, and Pete
Hafnor and Carl Hafnor for Northern
State Teachers College. Jamestown
College was represented by Messrs.
Stone, Raugust, Bay and Kane.
PASQUE PETALS
The Miscellaneous and Humor sec-tions
are receiving the maximum of
attention now. Contributions from
any of the campus wits and "shining
lights" will be gratefully received.
Each editor is urged to donate a lit-tle
time and originality to this sec-tion.
The extra time between quarters
was used to good advantage by the
Pasque Board.
April first is the dead line for all
materials. Everything must be in
the hands of the publishers by that
time. Hence, all contributors are
working intensively these days.
Ben Simmons, the advertising man-ager,
rounding up the last of
his copy.
The calendar for the spring quarter
is nearing completion. Miss Williams
of the Art department is working on
the illustrations for the fall and win-ter
quarters.
Dear reader, if you have any new
jokes or clever ideas that you wish
disseminated, hand them in to the
Publicity Office. Then on May 15, you
may proudly say: "I helped write
the Pasque."
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB
The Psychology Club will hold its
postponed meeting on Wednesday
night, March 24, at 7:15 in the
Psychology department rooms. At
this meeting new members will be
initiated. All who received a grade
of "B" or better last quarter are elig-ible
for membership. Dues are 25c
per quarter.
A new and more interesting initia-tion
ceremony has been devised. Can-didates
desiring to join the Club will
please call at Dr. Malmberg's office
some time Wednesday to leave their
names and obtain badges.
The Club is planning an interesting
program for the spring quarter in-cluding
testing, research, sponsoring a
speaker on an important phychologi-cal
subject, and other activities. After
the initiation ceremony is completed,
Wednesday night, refreshments will
be served.

The Exponent
Northern State Teachers College
SEE "FAIRYLAND" SEE "FAIRYLAND"
VOL. XXIV ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, MARCH 24, 1986 No. 23
THE STYLE SHOW "OUR YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW"
KINDERGARTEN EXPERT
TO LECTURE ON CAMPUS
SPONSORED BY LOCAL GROUP
Miss Alma Binzel Will Present Mod-ern
Ideas on Childhood and
Parenthood
Have you ever seen a real Fairyland
and a Fairy Godmother? In your im-agination
you-have, but here is a sec-ret:
there will be a real Fairyland
and a real Fairy Godmother on the
campus May 4, 5 and 6. With a
magic touch the sunparlor will be
transformed into Fairyland and the
Fairy Godmother will be in the per-son
of Alma Binzel.
In our fairy stories the fairy god-mother
waved her wand and spoke
some magic words which brought
good fortune to the child. Miss Binzel
will speak her magic words in the
form of three lectures on some phase
of Child Welfare. Every mother and
father, every teacher and prospective
teacher who hear her words of wisdom
will receive some magic keys which
will aid them in unlocking the person-ality
of the children entrusted to their
care.
Miss Binzel is an authority on child
welfare. She began the study of chil-dren
in the primary department of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, State Normal
School. She was so successful as a
student teacher that she was elected
to the directorship of the kindergarten
at her Alma Mater. She studied fur-ther
and received her B. S. and M. A.
degrees from the Teachers College,
Columbia University. She has also
done advanced work at the University
of Minnesota and at Smith College
Training School for Social Workers.
She is noted as an educator, a writ-er,
and a lecturer. She is, at present,
educational director and associate edi-tor
for the Federation for Child Study,
and is also contributing editor of
"Childhood Education," the new offi-cial
organ of the International Kin-dergarten
Union. She was a member
of the organization which inaugurated
the first conference on "Modern Parenthood,"
held in New York, last Oc-tober.
As a lecturer she is winning
great applause because of her mes-sage
and because of her forceful and
convincing attitude as a speaker. She
is now making a tour speaking before
professional groups and other groups
interested in her passage.
Miss Binzel has contracted to pre-sent
three lectures under the auspices
of the Kindergarten-Primary Club,
May 4, 5 and 6. The exact nature
of the lectures and the exact time will
be announced later.
COMMERCIAL TEST
Much interest is being manifest
by commercial students throughout
the state in the district contest in
commercial work to be held on March
20 at the various districts. There are
31 high schools represented in the
11 districts, which is more than have
ever before been represented. To date
265 students have registered, 45 of
whom are in the bookkeeping contest
held in South Dakota for the first
time this year.
The Aberdeen district has the larg-est
registration with Miss Evelyn
Bailey, a former student of N. S. T.
C., as manager. This district is rep-resented
by six schools. Three of their
teachers, Miss Madsen at Eureka, Miss
Wilson at Langford and Miss Bailey
at Aberdeen, in these schools beirtg
former students at the college. Con-testants
winning high scores in the
district meets will be entered in the
State Contest to be held at Aberdeen
in April.
12,000 SCHOOL BULLETINS
The 1926 Summer School of N. S
T. C. again promises to be the larg-est
ever held in the state. A force
of eight people has been employed the
past week in the annual job of send-ing
out summer school bulletins to
prospective students over the state
of South Dakota. The mailing list
is made up of high school graduates
principals, superintendents, and teach-ers
over the state and the adjoining
states. Up to the present time there
have been approximately twelve thou-sand
bulletins mailed.
MISS TAGGART REPORTS
At the meeting of Physical Educa-tion
Directors held at Minneapolis, last
week, Miss Taggart of N. S. T. C. was
the only representative from the Da-kotas.
The general theme was "Motiva-tion."
Of special interest to Miss
Taggart was the discussions of Wo-men's
Athletics, stressing the need of
leaders along this line and the devel-opment
of a program exclusively for
women instead of following men's
rules.
Among the more prominent speak-ers
present were President Coffman
of University of Minnesota; Dr. Nor-ris,
President of Midwest Section;
McCurdy, editor American Physical
Education Review; H. Doubler, the
natural dancer; Mary Woodman Hin-man,
writer; Bowen, Michigan,
Ypsalanti; and Wilbur Burton of the
Cincinnati University.
The Danish Gymnastic rhythmic ex-ercises
and many other demonstra-tions
were features of the program.
See "Fairyland"
ETHICS FOR TEACHERS
Recognizing the recent impetus which interest in education has received, realizing that this increases the opportunty for?
service extended to us as teachers, and desiring to make as definite as possible in our own minds our aims and ideals, we are led to formulate
a Standard of Ethics for the grade teachers of the United States
We believe that one who aspires to be a leader of youth should have, first of all, Character—that subtle and indefinable qual-ity
which is finer than the finest deeds; greater than the greatest facts, which includes, but transcends honor—a nice sense of what is right,
just, and true, with a course of life corresponding thereto; Vision--in supreme faith in the ultimate triumph of the ideal good; Patience—
which means the ability and willingness to wait, and may also mean kndliness to evil-doers, and bearing with the weaknesses of others; Jus-tice—recognizing in our fellow-man another self-seeing both sides of every question; Benevolence—that which helps another to help himself—not indulgence; That energy and enthusiasm which can be satisfied only by seeing ambition realized; Service—"The power to give the world more than I take."
And with these a broad education both liberal and professional as a preparation for one's life work, so that he may do it consc-ientiously
and with pleasure because he can do it well.
"And it came to pass that after awhile the artist was forgotten—but the work lived."
—N. L. T. A. Committee on Standard of Ethics.
STATE MUSIC CONTEST
Twenty Different Schools Enrolled
With More Than 500 Contestants
Professor Ivor Thomas gave a very
interesting talk in convocation, last
Wednesday, concerning the Music
Contest which is to be held in the N
S. T. C. Auditorium, Wednesday and
Thursday, April 21 and 22. There
is to be a bigger and better presenta-
tion this year than last, as over 500
students are participating. It is es-timated
that the soloists number from
90 to 100. Professor Frederick Muel-
ler - of Minneapolis, who is one of our
most representative musicians in the
northwest, will act as judge in the
contest. The towns already enrolled
are as follows: Aberdeen, Bradley,
Clark, Cresbard, Eureka, Faulkton
Frankfort, Groton, Leola, McIntosh,
Northville, Redfield, Sisseton, Sum-mit,
Frederick, Hecla, Roscoe, Strat-ford,
Westport and Rockham.
Medals and ribbons will be awarded
to solo contestants and cups will be
awarded to group contestants. Mr
Thomas urges as many to attend this
event as possible, for many valuable
benefits can be derived from such a
musical contest.
N. N. I. S.-1919-N. N. I. S.
"Arrangements have been made for
an oil painting on the frieze of the
balcony in the school auditorium. On
this broad band, extending the entire
width of the room, will be depicted a
rural scene showing the three great
institutions, the home, the church and
the school."
"After long and honorable connec-tion
with the N. N. I. S., President
Johnson is called to a greater honor
and responsibility-the presidency of
South Dakota State College. May it
have for him the same long service,
the same fine achievements, the same
deep regard of faculty and student
body. He is northy of it all.-A. H.
Seymour."
"Miss Mary Meek of the English
department expects to leave about
March 1, for San Antonio, Tex., where
for about six weeks she will cooperate
with her brother, C. S. Meek, superin-tendent
of San Antonio schools, and
Miss Estaline Wilson, in editing a
series of three readers for the elemen-tary
schools."
"Dr. Harold W. Foght, director of
the recent state-wide educational sur-vey
ordered by the South Dakota leg-islature,
and since 1912 specialist in
rural education for the Bureau of
Education at Washington and chief
of the rural school division in charge
of the Bureau's rural school work
for the entire country, was elected
president of the Northern Normal and
Industrial School to succeed President
Willis E. Johnson."
"Bernice Remde, first Gypsy Queen,
was a visitor on the campus last Sat-urday."
"With the opening of the winter
term at the Northern Normal on Jan-uary
5, 1920, this institution becomes
a federalized school, receiving subs-tantial
aid from the United States
government for the purpose of or-ganizing
and maintaining a depart-ment
for hygiene. A check for $6,750
has been received to cover this allott-ment
for the first year."
"This year the school returns to
the daily convocation plan. It
planned to have fifteen minute talks
on worth-while topics each day."
"Dr. Foght is very proud of his new
son, John Allen, born last week. John
is a direct descendant, on his mater-nal
side, from. Ethan Allen of Ticon-deroga."
ELECTION IN DISTRICT IX
The girls of District Nine met with
their advisor, Miss Burnham, during
convocation period, Thursday morning
to elect a new district representative.
After heavy and bitter campaign
speeches, the candidates, Edna Dunker
and Phyllis McCarthy, were voted up-
on. The vote resulted in a tie. Then a
more heated discussion took place with
both candidates begging for votes.
Finally out of the din and noise came
a voice saying, "Let Us Cast Lots."
The suggestion was taken up and it
was decided that the advisor was to
be the one to draw the fatal card.
Suspense reigned as Miss Burnham
drew the card and read the name of
Miss McCarthy. Miss McCarthy wad
over joyed because of her victory and
immediately made her opponent her
assistant and secretary.
THE 1926 BASKETBALL SQUAD
FACULTY SURVEY SHOWS ACTIVITY
BELONG TO MANY GROUPS
All Are Members of N. E. A. and S. D. E. A., National and
State Educational Organizations
Making surveys of certain groups
seems to be quite the thing these days
and so in order not to be behind the
times we have endeavored to make a
survey of the N. S. T. C. faculty.
Fifty-two individuals were interviewed
as to what organizations they belong
and in what outside activities
they aie interested. If any were
skipped it was due to the fact that
we were, unable to get in touch with
them.
The purpose of the survey was to
determine how far faculty members
enter into various extra-curricular activities
and to refute if possible, the
statement that teachers in general
are not interested and active citizens.
The men belong to more organiza-
tions than the women. The order of
Masons seems to be popular, as there
are ten members in this group. There
are four Rotarians, all of whom are
especially active, as one is vice-president,
one secretary, one a director,
and one a song leader. There are four
Kiwanians, one of whom is president
and one district director. Three be-long
to the Orpheus Club, a group of
male singers. Seven belong to the
American Association of University
Women. Seven of the faculty are
members of the Aberdeen Commercial
Club and four are members of the
Isaac Walton League. Three are in-
terested as Y. M. C. A. and three as
Y. W. C. A. workers. The order
of Eastern Stars has five representa-
tives. The Modern Woodmen of America
claims four. There is one Moose,
two Knights of Columbus, and two
Lions, one Elk, one Muscovite and
one Catholic Order of Foresters. One
is a member of the American Summer
Resort Association, Nearly all are
members of the American Red Cross
and most of the women have member-
ships in some one of the city clubs.
There are three Odd Fellows and one
K. P. Thirty-five belong to the var-ious
professional societies and asso-ciations
representing their own field of
work. Two women are active in
the Girls' Scout movement. Nearly
all who have children are members
of the Parent-Teachers Association.
The entire faculty belongs to the N.
E. A. and S. D. E. A., two being life
members.
The faculty is well represented in
church work. Three of them are
church organists, two are choir lead-
ers and one church soloist. Seven others
are members of church choirs.
Eighteen others take active parts in
various churches as superintendents
or Sunday School teachers. Three
faculty members are lay preachers.
All who were interviewed are "of
age" and affirmed that they discharge
their duties as voters. Many of them
said they were "free-lances" in poli-tics.
These figures would seem to
prove conclusively that teachers are
as active in community activities as
those of any other group.
CONCERNING ENROLLMENT
The Registrar Says That 1061 Stu-dents
have Enrolled to Date
From the Registrar's Office come
some figures concerning enrollment
which are rather interesting. There
are eleven more students registered
this quarter than a year ago for the
spring quarter. Not so very many
more, but, nevertheless, more, and
that shows a healthy growth. In the
Extension Department there is a still
larger growth. A year ago there were
enrolled in this department 272 stu-dents,
as against 301 for this year.
In total enrollment there is also a
step forward, so far as numbers are
concerned. Last year at this time
1056 different, resident students bad
enrolled during the year. As against
this number the registrar informs us
that we have 1061 as a total of res-ident
students for the present year
MISS SMITH TO EUROPE
Miss Lolie Smith has made reser-vation
through the Milwaukee Travel
Bureau for a European trip. She
will sail from New York on June 26
and will tour France, Italy, Switzer-land,
Germany, Belgium and England
She plans to return to Montreal the
latter part of August from which
place she will go to Texas to visit rel-ative
and friends. We are sure .Miss
Smith will have a wonderful vaca-tion
and will come back to her classes
with many splendid ideas.
ANOTHER PROMOTION
Gideon Seymour Promoted to A. P
Headquarters in Chicago
Gideon D. Seymour, a graduate of
the college in 1919 and former head
of the Associated Press in South Da-kota
has been promoted from the
place he took last July at Indianap-olis
as head of the Associated Press
in Indiana to a place on the staff of
the division headquarters in Chicago
His new work will involve the handl-ing
of news stories principally in the
metropolitan area including Chicago
and its environs. Mr. Seymour joined
the A. P. in 1923 and has been ar
editor in the Iowa and Nebraska bur-eaus
and head of the service in South
Dakota and Indiana. His initial news-paper
work was done on the old Aberdeen
News under the direction of
its long-time editor, John Saunders.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
Fifteen city teachers are now tak-ing
work in Geography. Nine are
taking a course in European geo-graphy
and six have enrolled for the
course in Economic Geography. Some
of the city teachers have taken prac-tically
the entire two years of work
in college geography. Three of the
students are principals in the Aber-deen
city schools. Professor Worf
has been holding classes in the even.
ing and on Saturday to accommodate
these people from down town.
THE STYLE SHOW
One-Hundred-and-Thirty People To
Take Part in Annual Event
On account of a conflict, the Style
Show which was scheduled for Wed-nesday
will be given Thursday morn-
ing, March 25, instead of during the
regular convocation period.
A delightful and instructive pro-gram
has been arranged which will
meet the approval of all. The com-mittee
in charge has aimed to make
this style show a worthwhile enter-prise.
Styles appropriate for all oc-casions
will be displayed. You will
find the style, line and color suitable
for your particular type. Reasonable
priced garments, within the reach of
average college students will be
shown. A hundred and thirty people
will take part, thus making it the
biggest Style Show ever held at N.
S. T. C.
The Beaux Art Club has charge of
the stage scenery and judging from its
effective work in the past, the setting
will be beautiful and in harmony with
the program. The lighting will be
taken care of by Mr. Harkness.
The program is entitled "Our Yes-terdays,
Today and Tomorrow," and
is divided into three parts. The first
part, "As We Were," takes us back
to our childhood. A group of small
children and boys and girls in the
'teen age will appear in this scene.
The second part, "As We Are," takes
us through a whole day showing negl-igee,
morning, sport, street, afternoon,
dinner, and evening dress. The third
part, "As We Hope to Be," gives us
a glimpse into the future.
Throughout the program, Aileen
Egan will play music appropriate to
every scene.
ALL-SCHOOL DANCE
The St. Patrick's Day All-School
Dance was well attended last Satur-day.
The dance was sponsored by the
Kappa Delta Pi pledges. The Gym
was most artistically decorated to suit
the occasion with green Irish hats,
pigs, snakes, shamrocks and pipes
against a white background. The
music was furnished by the Jazzy
Juniors. Miss Staael and Miss Ahern
favored the group with solo dances.
Miss Schumaker and Miss Hull gave
a Charleston exhibition. Mr. and Mrs.
Sherwood were chaperons.
PROFESSORS AS JUDGES
Professors Wray, J. W. Thomas, and
Dean Seymour acted as judges in a
debate tournament at Selby last
week. The schools which debated
were Wakpala, Mobridge, Selby and
Roscoe. The final contest was be-tween
Selby and Mobridge and Mo-bridge
came out the winner. The
question discussed was the child la-bor
question.
MR. PERRY CLIFFORD
The voice department of our college
has a unique pupil in Perry Clifford,
a farmer from Cresbard. His occu-pation
is farming; his hobby is music,
and he makes it an interesting side
line.
He makes his weekly visit to the
campus and takes lessons from Pro-fessor
Clyde Matson. For the past
three years he has drilled a large
chorus for the Messiah in Faulk
County. Every two weeks he meets
the singers in four separate commun-ities-
at Cresbard, Rockham, Faulk-ton
and Norbeck. These groups are
then combined into one chorus of
about seventy.
At Richland, Mr. Clifford has a class
in singing. He follows his avocation
as industriously as his vocation and
is evidently as interested in one as in
the other. Mrs. Clifford is also a mus-ician
and helps her husband in his
work.
WHEN DO WE HIKE?
Saturday at 8:30 A. M. and 2:00
P. M., every girl will want to hike
These wonderful days must not be
passed by without a hike. If you have
never hiked with us, come out Satur-day
and we promise you a good time.
Of course we want to see all of the
old members out. All will be inter-ested
to know that due to a change
in the W. A. A. constitution that only
forty-miles are required, each Hiker
receiving forty-five points. Let's make
our group the largest ever and have
a good time every Saturday.
OPEN-FORUM DEBATES
ARE VERY POPULAR
Men's Teams Are Busy
Contests are Held in Several Com-munities
in North and South
Dakota
The Northern State Teachers Col-lege
has tried an experiment in its
debating program this year which has
gone a long ways in placing Intercol-legiate
Debate on a practical basis.
The Open-Forum Debates were the
first departure from the old form of
competition in an attempt to make
this form of public discussion a means
of conveying information rather than
winning a decision. The past two
weeks our teams have taken part in
several debates held in several South
Dakota and North Dakota communi-ties
for the purpose of giving these
communities a better understanding
of the child labor question.
During the week from March 5 to
March 12, our negative team, com-posed
of Carl, Otto and William Gruhn
and Ben Renz met the affirmative
team from Eastern State Teachers
College, composed of Mary Pensch,
Mr. Campbell and Ruth Brown, as
follows: Logan Consolidated School
at Raymond, Congregational Church
at Clark, and Thorpe Consolidated
School at Bradley. The audience was
permitted to vote before and after
the debates to determine how many
had changed their attitude on the
subject as a result of the discussion.
The first two nights there was no
change in the opinion of the audience,
but the third night there was a very
decided change of attitude in favor of
the negative.
This series of debates showed that
the people were interested in the dis-cussion.
From the questions that
were asked and from the interest that
was shown, it was clear that the aud-ience
was seeking information. The
debaters report a royal reception and
splendid entertainment in every com-munity
visited.
The success of these debates was
shown by the fact that Superintendent
Headley of Garden City, who heard
the debate at Clark, immediately
asked the teams to arrange for a date
at Garden City in the near future.
Debate Jamestowit
Last week the men's teams of Nor-thern
State Teachers College met
Jamestown College in a series of
open-forum debates in North Dakota.
The teams alternated, one team tak-ing
the affirmative side of the ques-tion
one evening and the negative the
next. These debates were very well
attended by enthusiastic and interest-ed
audiences. It is another evidence
of the popularity of "open-forum de-bates
in the smaller North and South
Dakota communities.
The schedule was as follows: March
15, LaMoure,; March 16, Edgeley;
March 17, Ellendale; March 18, Ful-lerton;
March 19, Wyndmere; and
March 20, Streeter.
The teams were composed of Pete
Hafnor and Calvin Lewis, William
Gruhn and Ben Simmons, and Pete
Hafnor and Carl Hafnor for Northern
State Teachers College. Jamestown
College was represented by Messrs.
Stone, Raugust, Bay and Kane.
PASQUE PETALS
The Miscellaneous and Humor sec-tions
are receiving the maximum of
attention now. Contributions from
any of the campus wits and "shining
lights" will be gratefully received.
Each editor is urged to donate a lit-tle
time and originality to this sec-tion.
The extra time between quarters
was used to good advantage by the
Pasque Board.
April first is the dead line for all
materials. Everything must be in
the hands of the publishers by that
time. Hence, all contributors are
working intensively these days.
Ben Simmons, the advertising man-ager,
rounding up the last of
his copy.
The calendar for the spring quarter
is nearing completion. Miss Williams
of the Art department is working on
the illustrations for the fall and win-ter
quarters.
Dear reader, if you have any new
jokes or clever ideas that you wish
disseminated, hand them in to the
Publicity Office. Then on May 15, you
may proudly say: "I helped write
the Pasque."
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB
The Psychology Club will hold its
postponed meeting on Wednesday
night, March 24, at 7:15 in the
Psychology department rooms. At
this meeting new members will be
initiated. All who received a grade
of "B" or better last quarter are elig-ible
for membership. Dues are 25c
per quarter.
A new and more interesting initia-tion
ceremony has been devised. Can-didates
desiring to join the Club will
please call at Dr. Malmberg's office
some time Wednesday to leave their
names and obtain badges.
The Club is planning an interesting
program for the spring quarter in-cluding
testing, research, sponsoring a
speaker on an important phychologi-cal
subject, and other activities. After
the initiation ceremony is completed,
Wednesday night, refreshments will
be served.